Button for gloves.



PATENTED AUG. 21, 1906.

0. R. WBIDMULLER.

BUTTON FOR GLOVES.

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CARL ROBERT WEIDMULLER, OF CHEMNITZ, GERMANY.

BUTTON FOR GLOVES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed June 2,1905. Serial No. 263,393.

To all whorl L it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL ROBERTVVEID- MULLER, a subject of the King ofSaxony and the Emperor of Germany, and a resident of the city ofChemnitz, Saxony, in the German Em ire, have invented certain new anduseful improvements in Buttons for Gloves, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact specifica ti on.

The object of the present invention is a separable button for gloves andthe like composed of two well-known members, one forming a socket memberand the other a stud member.

The improvement consists principally in a shape of the socket or socket.part of the socket member exactly corresponding to the shape of theupper part of the resilient stud piece, so that after closing the partsthey remain steadily together till they are separated by a strong pull.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 shows a plan view of a part of the socket member. Fig. 2 is across-section thereof. Fig. 3 shows in cross-section the eyelet. Fig. 4is a plan view of the same. Fig. 5 is a section of the complete socketmember secured to the fabric. Figs. 6 and 7 show in plan view andsectiol'i an eyelet similar to Fig. 3 for securing the fabric to thestud-piece. Fig. 8 shows the stud-piece in cross-section. Fig. 9 showsthe same in plan view. Fig. 10 is a crosssection through the stud-pieceunited with its eyelet and clamping the fabric. Fig. 11 shows incross-section the completed socket member and stud member in operativeconnection.

a is the cap or to J plate of the socket mem ber of any suitablematerial, and b is the socket part. The socket part b is converging orconical at the mouth or soeket-entrance and has the exact inner shape asthe resilient stud-piece on the outside, so that the latter snugly fitsin the socket part and is in contact with the same at all parts of itsinterior. The lower edge I) of the socket part is preferably doubled orrolled, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5, to strengthen the edge and preventany deformation by long and repeated use. At the union or junction ofthe socket and the flange 1) of the socket art the metal is spun out, soas to form a eep annular and rounded external or exterior groove 0,Figs. 2 and 5. The socket portion b is formed with an exterior annularridge 0 as seen in the diflerent views, which ridge is disposed betweenthe groove 0 and the end or mouth of the socket portion.

The eyelet, Figs. 3 and 4, has the usual form of a short sleeve 7, witha broad flange e, whichbinds the fabric and clamps it against the flangeb of the socket part when suitable pressure is applied in the well-knownmanner, thereby rolling the edge of the sleeve finwardly, as shown inFig. 5, and firmly uniting the eyelet and the socket on the fabric.

The groove 0 acts as an anvil and guides the metal inwardly, as is wellknown. However, the rounded shape of the groove produces a curling ofthe edge, and thereby a much better and more resistant union iscffected. g is a slittcd stud, as seen in Fig. 8. There is also a groove0 provided at the union of the stud and its plate or flange, so that thelower edge of the eyelet, Figs. 6 and 7, may be curled around in thegroove when pressure is applied to unite the eyelet with the st11d-pieceand to clamp the fabric (1 be.- tween the flange h and the flange h ofthe stud-piece, as shown in Fig. 10.

In closing the button--that is to say, in pushing the stud member, Fig.10, into the socket member, Fig. 5-a union is obtained, illustrated byFig. 1], and it will be seen from this figure that the fabrics comeclose together and that the head of the stud-piece is well embraced bythe socket part. It will be noted that the end of the flanged eyelet iscurled within the exterior or annular rounded groove 6 in the lower endof the stud member and the end 6 of the socket part is engaged in anexternal groove (1 of the stud-piece between the ends of the latter.

The pull upon the socket part in separating the parts is transferredupon the flange b in such a way that the ressure acts directly on thefabric, the eyelet being used only to clamp the fabric between itsflange and the flange b of the socket member, and thus any danger oftearing apart or separating the parts is avoided. To this end the socketpart is formed in one piece with the flange, and the deep roundedannular groove 0 is formed in the metal at the union of flange andsocket part into which the edge of the eyelet is crowded. The studmember is formed in a similar way and on the same principles, the flangeh acting in the same way as the flange b It will thus be seen. that whenthe button is pulled apart the strain on the stud-piece, as well as onthe socket part is transferred upon integral parts of the metal, whichrest on the outer surface of the fabric, and tearing of the partsthrough the hole in the fabric is )revented.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- A separable buttoncomprising a socket member with cap, a socket part having an exteriorannular rounded groove and an exterior annular ridge between said grooveand the end of the mouth )ortion of the socket )art, an eyelet with aflange at one end and having its other end curled within said annularrounded groove, and a cooperating stud member having a resilientstud-piece and an nm t,

